Pressing

Quick meaning: Pressing is an adjective meaning Needing urgent attention.

Meaning

Needing urgent attention.

More Meanings

1. Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
2. The application of pressure by a press or other means.
3. A metal or plastic part made with a press.
4. The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
5. The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
6. A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
7. A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio. Usually done with a flower, ribbon, letter, or other soft, small keepsake.

Example Sentences

He was pressing and persuasive.

You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go.

“I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.”

The rebuilding of damaged stations is proceeding slowly, on account of the shortage of building materials and the pressing needs of housing, but steady progress is being made.

Word Forms

• pressings

Synonyms for pressing

Depending on context, synonyms include imperative, press, pressure, urgent.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include urgent, pressure, imperative, exigent, exigency, urgently.

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